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Obama on the Offensive Despite what the naysayers tell us about Senator Barack Obama's supposed inexperience, he is what this country needs after seven years of outrageous mismanagement by the grossly incompetent incumbent [Dec. 10]. In my native land, the pessimists said Corazon Aquino and her lack of experience didn't stand a chance against President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. History proved them wrong. A unifying figure like Aquino, without the usual political baggage that accompanies experience, was what the Philippines needed at the time. Obama presents himself as a figure whose crossover appeal can help bridge...
...refer to African culture but hardly ever to Nigerian culture, distinct from Kenyan or Algerian culture, for instance? Perhaps it's easier to focus on the lowest common denominator of the African experience than on the unique cultural signifiers that every African country possesses as much as does the land of Proust, Monet, Piaf and Truffaut. Tolu Ogunlesi, ABEOKUTA, NIGERIA...
...them. These offsets can now be bought and sold in a global market that seeks out the lowest cost and most efficient ways of reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. In the absence of such payments, the poor of the developing world will have no choice but to exhaust the land and become environmental migrants...
...When the packet of orientation activities arrived in the mail, I took a few deep breaths and picked FOP, a week of camping for all of the nature-loving undergrads I was soon to join. I lied shamelessly on the forms, ellipsing my experience living on the land in New Mexico without running water, toilets, or joy, and signed up for a beginner trip. My father was surprised at my orientation activity choice (“But Lizzie, you hate camping. And nature.” “You don’t even know...
...girl who had spent her summer on some sort of death march-esque wilderness experience in Alaska. Then there was me, wearing a pink bandana. As I strapped on my rented backpack on the first day, I tried to push away memories of wandering around the land in New Mexico, searching for any point in the landscape that differentiated itself from the rest, and to focus on the scenery in front...